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There Will Be Brawl: Basically HBO+Nintendo
Khavall
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So there's a show
It's called "There will be Brawl"
It's amazing.
No it's more amazing then you're thinking after I said that.
It's on the Escapist and has it's own site with news and episodes.
Basically, it's an HBO drama, but with the characters from Super Smash Bros: Brawl.
It includes such awesome things like: Kirby is a cannibal. Samus is a stripper, pretty much all the elves from Zelda are strippers. Link is a corrupt police chief. Seriously this shit is incredible. Also every girl in the series that appears is hot. Really hot.
But that's not the point.
The point is that the concept is pretty damn genius, and considering the budget, the writing and acting are fantastic. So, since we don't have a thread for it already, we now have a thread for it. Anyone notice any fun things? How great is this? When a new episode comes, let's talk about it. How hot is Samus? Did you know that the actress playing Zelda is in fact not an actress but a costume designer? How about that Luigi, one of the best actors on the show, is mostly a comedian, despite totally being able to pull off dark humor/drama? Ganondorf, one of the other strong actors, is a VA for a bunch of games, including Brutal Legend, Fei-Long for Street Fighter IV, and World of Warcraft(I know, indie game, but you may have heard of it)
Let's have this thread for TWBB, and leave the Unskippable thread to the whole thing I guess it's about maybe or something.
Oh right. When does it update? The final Friday every month.
It's called "There will be Brawl"
It's amazing.
No it's more amazing then you're thinking after I said that.
It's on the Escapist and has it's own site with news and episodes.
Basically, it's an HBO drama, but with the characters from Super Smash Bros: Brawl.
It includes such awesome things like: Kirby is a cannibal. Samus is a stripper, pretty much all the elves from Zelda are strippers. Link is a corrupt police chief. Seriously this shit is incredible. Also every girl in the series that appears is hot. Really hot.
But that's not the point.
The point is that the concept is pretty damn genius, and considering the budget, the writing and acting are fantastic. So, since we don't have a thread for it already, we now have a thread for it. Anyone notice any fun things? How great is this? When a new episode comes, let's talk about it. How hot is Samus? Did you know that the actress playing Zelda is in fact not an actress but a costume designer? How about that Luigi, one of the best actors on the show, is mostly a comedian, despite totally being able to pull off dark humor/drama? Ganondorf, one of the other strong actors, is a VA for a bunch of games, including Brutal Legend, Fei-Long for Street Fighter IV, and World of Warcraft(I know, indie game, but you may have heard of it)
Let's have this thread for TWBB, and leave the Unskippable thread to the whole thing I guess it's about maybe or something.
Oh right. When does it update? The final Friday every month.
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Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_y5kiPuAGk
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Wow, why don't they put it on G4 or Spike? Everything you said makes it sound like it's for 13 year old boys.
(No, I haven't seen it either, but it looks decent and not-shitty.)
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
So it's for 14 year old boys.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Of course, everything with attractive chicks and sex is for 14 year old boys.
Oh and it's about video game characters, so it should have been obvious, only 14 year old boys like video games and hot chicks.
Seriously people, maybe it's just 'cause I'm a musician and never really had to mature past the age of 12(heh, heh.... measure 69 is always funny), but I actually still appreciate hot girls. I still like sex too.
I mean come on did you people stop watching porn at age 14 or something? Hot girls aren't exclusive to 13 year olds.
I specifically said after talking about the hot girls that that wasn't the point of the show
So we should judge film writing by novel standards? Opera acting by straight theater acting?
Specific fields have specific strengths. Of course the actors aren't Patrick Stewart, but they by the standards of the media are good.
it's this quote here that leads me to believe that one of your defenses is based purely on sex appeal, and the other
is based on "well it's pretty good for being awful"
you don't need to justify your enjoyment of the show, but I'm not seeing quality here
try "high school english class standards"
ok, maybe that's a lil harsh.
freshman comp at uni.
cause even then it hardly measures up
Man what are you on about here
I didn't compare two different forms of artistic expression
this is a show with acting
the acting isn't very good
not good when compared to, you know, good acting
it is a show, and is therefore subject to criticism as are all shows
this isn't apples and oranges, this is apples and apples
edit:
And yes, it is incredibly fucking entertaining despite any quality concerns.
Me, too. My introduction to the series is actually documented in the Unskippable thread a couple of weeks ago. Nobody payed any attention at the time. I bet they wouldn't be so smug if they knew they could have had all this awesome back then. I bet they wouldn't be so smug at all.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I know I don't need to justify my enjoyment, but the idea that you're not seeing quality is because you've got goalposts about a billion yards away instead of 100.
All I'm saying is that by any standard that is applicable to the art, it's well written and well acted. You want to apply universal standard? Fine, but then of course it's bad. No multimedia ever will ever come close to pure arts in artistry. But multimedia isn't pure, it's an amalgam. If multimedia was just the best ever of all media, Video Games would be the best art ever, combining all forms of media. But it's not. And with the "new media" of the internet, and the addition to the vernacular of film multimedia of the web shorts, it's amazingly well done.
Also, none of my defense is based on sex appeal, but saying "LOL YOU MENTIONED HOT GIRLS UR A 13 YEAR OLD BOY THAT'S ALL THAT SEX APPEALS TO" is the most retarded fucking shit ever. I mean seriously. Mature adults still like sex. Dismissing things out of hand for having attractive girls is dumb shit that is the instant insult of the 16 year old boys who think they're better than the 13 year old boys because they are totally too smart to like sex.
This.
You've obviously never seen the aggregate of a high school english class or freshman comp and uni
Seriously, people. It's enjoyable, it's well done for the field, it's a good web series... Stop putting it down to feel superior. We get it, I guess you're smart or something(though not smart enough to actually think about art critically). Enjoy you're brilliance and enjoy the fucking show, you morons.
why should I lower my expectations?
that was so bad oh my god
Because your expectations are devoid of practicality.
You know what? All film music, all video game music, all musical theater music, any music composed with any intent other than pure music experimentation and advancement, sucks in comparison.
99.99% of people in the world could not listen to the best music. 99.99% of the people who can at least listen to it without just hearing meaningless noise and shutting it off don't understand how or why it's great.
But John Williams remains a great film composer.
Recognition of specific media isn't lowering expectations.
Really hard, actually.
Having said that, I haven't come to any sort of action scene yet so I can't really comment on how it compares to my own efforts.
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All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Why are my expectations devoid of practicality? Because I don't enjoy an internet show that has an incredibly low budget? You are trying to convince me that this thing is good, as long as I lower my expectations enough. But you know what? Dirt probably tastes pretty good if you lower your expectations enough. That doesn't motivate me to eat dirt.
I don't like what you like, so you call me immature, tell me I have a superiority complex, and then go on to call me a fucking idiot. I was going to let this go, but now I'm not so sure.
EDIT: And for some reason, this comes to mind: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/alttext_critics/
It's not even your fucking show. You don't need to defend it against us evil men who would wish harm upon it.